Hi - I've been a GarageBand 6.0.5 user forever and I figure that one of these days it's going to stop working. I'm a podcaster, so GarageBand 10 is a non-starter for me.

I've read your manual top to bottom (that's SO unlike me) and there's one thing I didn't find. One is auto-ducking. I have intro/outtro music that GarageBand ducks for me under my voice.

If auto-ducking isn't an option, the other thing I'd like is a way to set a template file where I manually set the ducking but I do it once and save that template instead of having to mess with it every week. This is less desirable because I have no way of knowing how long the file is going to be before I start so the ending music will be in the wrong place in the template.

I share your dislike for GB10. I edited the guide because it needed done and no one els was doing it. Thank you for taking the time to read it. I do all of my work in Logic now of days but if for some strange reason I need to use GB it is GB 6.5. Come to think about it I have never seen any reference to ducking in GB 10. Let me poke around and if I find anything I will drop you a line.

Hi - I've been a GarageBand 6.0.5 user forever and I figure that one of these days it's going to stop working. I'm a podcaster, so GarageBand 10 is a non-starter for me.

I've read your manual top to bottom (that's SO unlike me) and there's one thing I didn't find. One is auto-ducking. I have intro/outtro music that GarageBand ducks for me under my voice.

If auto-ducking isn't an option, the other thing I'd like is a way to set a template file where I manually set the ducking but I do it once and save that template instead of having to mess with it every week. This is less desirable because I have no way of knowing how long the file is going to be before I start so the ending music will be in the wrong place in the template.

To be clear, I'm looking for auto-ducking in Amadeus. I'm not trying to use GB10._________________Allison Sheridan
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I’m not aware of auto ducking in AP, however the below workflow works well for me and there’s plenty of other ways to skin the cat.

1. Create intro and outro templates. I have most of the meta data for my podcast included in the intro template as well.

2. Record the actual podcast in a separate window/file and process/sweeten as desired.
3. In a copy of the intro template, move the insertion point to the appropriate location and use the paste over function to copy the vocal track over the intro music.
* The paste over function includes an optional “duck receiving track” check box with the ability to set the amount of ducking.

I repeat this at the end of the file with the outro template, this time unchecking the duck receiving track.

This workflow works well for me. It may not duplicate what you were able to do in GB but is efficient IMO.

Of course you could have the intro template created with volume ramped how every you like, eliminating the need to duck on paste over.

Hi Allison,
What you’re suggesting would work perfectly and sounds great, I’m not sure though where your concern for having to get the tracks to line up over a 40min show, is coming from. I am probably missing something.
One of the nice things about AP is that you can paste over, or paste to new track, at any arbitrary location.

So, let’s say you have a 30 second intro track/template,
* do the save as to start production on a new show - you now have a 30sec long show.
* Create the main vocal track, however you wish - typically I’d use Audio Hijack if recording Skype or straight into a new file in AP if it was just me. Let’s say this is 40min.
* Open this file in AP, select all and copy.

Now here’s where the workflow can split depending on whether you’re wanting to keep all the parts of the project in seperate tracks or if you are fairly happy with the relative volumes, etc.

1. if you are happy with the 40min track
* Paste over the 30sec show at the 15sec point. You now have a 40min 15sec show.
* Open your outro file and paste it over the end of your project. Let’s say it is 20sec and you paste it so that there is 10sec of overlap - you now have a 40min 25sec show all in the one track of the project.
With this example, you’d duck receiving track on the first paste over (voice over music) and not duck receiving on second paste over (music over voice)

2 If you wanted to keep all three elements of the project in there own tracks, you can use the paste to new track option instead. Track 1 would be the Intro. Track 2 would be your voice and this track would only exist from the 15sec location forward. Track 3 being the outro and existing from the 40min 5sec forward.

There’s clear advantages with the second approach in that you can come back and adjust relative volumes, etc, for the parts of the tracks that overlap. With the first approach, it is just quick and simple and keeps everything in the same track. It works particularly well when you want to string a whole lot of different parts of a show together - basically putting one after the other but with a slight overlap, with or without some ducking as the situation calls.

Of course there’s more options and I probably should have left this reply with the simple - Yes, sounds great. Just wanted to clarify a little though, hopefully. Concerned that I may have confused more than clarified.

I’ve only ever used AP for audio production so I’m not sure what aspects are different from other DAWs.
I love the app and can’t recommend it enough.

Regards, Garth

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On 22 Oct 2015, at 12:36 AM, Allison Sheridan <allison@podfeet.com (allison@podfeet.com)> wrote:
Thanks, Garth. I think that would work. I’m not sure the paste-over function would work for me because if I understand it correctly I’d have to paste my audio over the intro/outtro audio and it would be hard to get that to line up on two ends of a 40 minute show at the same time.
I’m thinking of this workflow:

Take my intro and outtro files and manually duck them. This shouldn’t be too hard since I start/stop them in the same place from my voice every single week.

Save the two files in their native AIFF format

Create a template file with tracks for my voice and the intro/outtro flies

Save the template file and in the Finder lock it so I don’t mess it up

On Oct 19, 2015, at 11:45 PM, Garth Humphreys <ghum01@gmail.com (ghum01@gmail.com)> wrote:
Hi Allison I’m not aware of auto ducking in AP, however the below workflow works well for me and there’s plenty of other ways to skin the cat.1. Create intro and outro templates. I have most of the meta data for my podcast included in the intro template as well.2. Record the actual podcast in a separate window/file and process/sweeten as desired.3. In a copy of the intro template, move the insertion point to the appropriate location and use the paste over function to copy the vocal track over the intro music. * The paste over function includes an optional “duck receiving track” check box with the ability to set the amount of ducking.I repeat this at the end of the file with the outro template, this time unchecking the duck receiving track.This workflow works well for me. It may not duplicate what you were able to do in GB but is efficient IMO. Of course you could have the intro template created with volume ramped how every you like, eliminating the need to duck on paste over. regards, Garth